The University of North Carolina - Charlotte

Date: Feb 14 2007
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
This is what galled me: when applied to the graduate school and then applied for an assistantship, I required three letters of recommendation. Two teachers actually volunteered to write letters. I asked for five faculty members to write letters of recommendation. When they arrived, I opened one "letter" from a teacher who volunteered to write a letter of recommendation for me because I had a bad feeling about the teacher (though I had made A's in her class). Guess what? The letter was a blank piece of UNCC letter head! though one is not supposed to read the letters of recommendation before they are turned in to the department, had I not asked for five letters and submitted only the two volunteers' letters plus the one that I asked for, I would have been scr*wed.

After that episode, I decided not to do my graduate work at UNCC. It was the right decision. I was never terribly comfortable at UNCC, though I made good grades.I never felt that the professors who taught my major subjects were terribly accepting of me.